Libros
David Quammen · W. W. Norton & Company, 2013
This work examines the emergence and causes of new diseases all over the world, describing a process called "spillover" where illness originates in wild animals before being passed to humans and discusses the potential for the next huge pandemic. The emergence of strange new diseases is a frightening problem that seems to be getting worse. In this age of speedy travel, it threatens a worldwide pandemic.
We hear news reports of Ebola, SARS, AIDS, and something called Hendra killing horses and people in Australia; but those reports miss the big truth that such phenomena are part of a single pattern. The bugs that transmit these diseases share one thing: they originate in wild animals and pass to humans by a process called spillover. As globalization spreads and as we destroy the ancient ecosystems, penetrating ever deeper into the furthest reaches of the planet, we encounter strange and dangerous infections that originate in animals but can be transmitted to humans.
It is reckoned that at least 60% of our infections diseases derive from animals. Diseases that were contained are being set free and the results are potentially catastrophic. The author tracks this subject around the world.
He recounts adventures in the field, netting bats in China, trapping monkeys in Bangladesh, stalking gorillas in the Congo, with the world's leading disease scientists. He takes the reader along on this quest to learn how, where from, and why these diseases emerge, and he asks the terrifying question: What might the next big one be?
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Divulgación · En inglés
Michael T. Osterholm, Mark Olshaker
Little, Brown and Company, 2017
A leading epidemiologist shares his "powerful and necessary" stories from the front lines of our war on infectious diseases and explains how to prepare for global epidemics (Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone ). Unlike natural disasters, whose destruction is concentrated in a limited area over a period of days,…
Universitario
Richard L. Guerrant, David H. Walker y otros
Elsevier Espana, 2002
Esta obra se hace eco del riesgo cada vez mayor que suponen las enfermedades tropicales para la salud de la población, ya que un 80% de la población mundial se concentra en zonas tropicales y el 20% restante cada vez tiene más que ver con estas zonas debido al rápido aumento de los viajes internacionales a zonas…
Divulgación · En inglés
David Quammen
2018
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction and A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 Nonpareil science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of evolution and life’s history, with powerful implications for human health and even our own human…
Divulgación · En inglés
Lawrence Wright
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2022
Beginning with the absolutely critical first moments of the outbreak in China, and ending with an epilogue on the vaccine rollout and the unprecedented events between the election of Joseph Biden and his inauguration, Lawrence Wright's The Plague Year surges forward with essential information--and fascinating…
Universitario · En inglés
Patrick Manson, Gordon C. Cook y otros
Saunders Ltd., 2002
